"Sequel to History" offers a comprehensive definition of
postmodernism as a reformation of time. Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth
uses a diversified theoretical approachdrawing on
post-structuralism, feminism, new historicism, and
twentieth-century scienceto demonstrate the crisis of our dominant
idea of history and its dissolution in the rhythmic time of
postmodernism. She enlarges this definition in discussions of
several crises of cultural identity: the crisis of the object, the
crisis of the subject, and the crisis of the sign. Finally, she
explores the relation between language and time in post-modernism,
proposing an arresting theory of her own about the rhythmic nature
of postmodern temporality. Because the postmodern construction of
time appears so clearly in narrative writing, each part of this
work is punctuated by a "rhythm section" on a postmodern narrative
(Robbe-Grillet's "Jealousy," Cortezar's "Hopscotch," and Nabokov's
"Ada"); these extended readings provide concrete illustrations of
Ermarth's theoretical positions. As in her critically acclaimed
"Realism and Consensus in the English Novel," Ermarth ranges across
disciplines from anthropology and the visual arts to philosophy and
history. For its interdisciplinary character and its lucid
definition of postmodernism, "Sequel to History" will appeal to all
those interested in the humanities.
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